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Darwin Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Darwin, Australia
'Ere it's a bit foisty in Darwin!
... look around the Supreme Court which also houses an art gallery – this time it had a collection of works by Aboriginal artists across Australia. This took me until around 2pm and by that time I was ready for a swim so I headed back to the hostel and ...
Dundee Beach, Gunn Point and more
... park to check out the Glenti festival - a 2 day event celebrating all things Greek, organised and run by the Greek community of Darwin. Fantastic food and music!! I must say the bus service in Darwin is terrific. $2 buys me a 3 hour ticket and people ...
Croc park
... place for making handbags.. A lot of the leather is exported to France.. They also sell the left over product meat to people in Australia.. The meat doesn't really have a taste, but you can use it as Chicken for a meal like Croc today or Croc curry.. The ...
Darwin
English - Darwin is the most northern part of Australia that we will visit on our travels. It is very humid here but unfortunately we can't cool off in the sea because there are too many Salt Water Crocodiles, Sharks and the some of the baddest jellyfish ...
Broome to Darwin
Ok you ready Stayed at Broome for 3 nights where & caught up with Dimis friend Anthony. Broome was lovely but extremely overpriced and very touristy. The beaches and sunset at Cable Beach, however, are breathtaking! Enjoyed 40 degree sleepless nights ...
Thursday - yet another Rest Day
Well, we certainly had enough rest days, the Ole 55s! Thursday was yet another Rest Day and a crowd of us went out to Kakadu by air, organized by Tall Fee's daughter Victoria, who is a pilot. One Ole 55 who will remain nameless, now holds the honour of ...
Chillin' out in Darwin
... less-desirable flying visitors became apparent: sand flies, which left our legs red-spotted and itchy, and RAAF jets from nearby Darwin airport filling the skies with thunder. Quite exciting the first ten or so times… On our first day we ...
Adels Grove to Darwin
... , population 15. At the hotel we shared our showers with the frogs. The next day we visited the daly Waters pub, with Australia's most remote traffic light. The pub had loads of stuff on the walls that all the travellers who pass through have put there ...
Warm again
... and equally deadly box jellyfish are waiting to sting in the sea. But this is all in the city, the amazing times have been in Darwin's vast surrounding areas, of which we have seen so much and yet so little. Will start a new page for that anyway, so see ...
Darwin,Northern Territory and Jumping Crocs!
... the night on the greyhound bus without being able to sleep properly and braking every half hour for Kangaroos eventually pulled up at Darwin and checked into the Youth Shack.Shared a 4bed dorm with Mick,Si and Nicole-Mick and Si two mates from Oldham and ...
Nie masz butow, koszulki to nie bedziesz obsluzony
Kilka rzeczy wymagalo naszego dzialania I to niestety natychmiast… Wczoraj tak energicznie pociagnelam za samochodowa lodowke, ze zlamalam kabel doprowadzajacy prad z akumulatora! Dzisiaj troche zajelo nam zanim odnalezlismy sklep z akcesoriami do ...
Darwin Airport
Darwin is freaking hot and stuffy. That's all I can say. It's not really a massive part of our trip so we ...
Arrived into Darwin with hours to spare..
All that was left for today was the 300km journey into Darwin. We had to return the motorhome by 3pm. We started early and made it to the hostel for 12pm, and after a frantic unloading the 38 degree heat we managed to get the motorhome back at 2pm. ...
The tempest
... had'nt rained all day !!!!! Finished the day in the Jabru sport and social club. The next day was a 6-45 start back to Darwin where we booked into the YHA. Tomorrow I get the Gahn train south across the continent to Adelaide and Martin makes his way back ...
The spirit of the Ghan
I took the train from Alice to Darwin. The ride took 24 hours on the Ghan root. The ride was interesting and in the stop in Katrine we(Noam and I) almost missed the train. All in all it was better then doing that in a bus and probably cheaper. P.S - ...
Finally leaving Darwin hurrah!!!!!!!!
After four months, which to us has felt like a life time (our own decision of course) we are finally leaving Darwin and Australia hurray!! Maybe one day we're be back to do Western Australia, maybe not, who knows!? We have certainly been experiencing a ...
From the Red Centre to the Tropical Top End
... so. Then the international departures room opened and we had to get up again and go through more security and customs for departing Australia, which was something fairly new to me, we don’t have to do that leaving Canada. Again, in another waiting ...
DESTINATION DARWIN
... freedomified that it's hard!! After flying over red sandy desert, red sandy desert and er...more red sandy desert, we arrive in Darwin!! I like the airport and I like the heat!! I am actually really excited!! As we drive through the streets of this ...
its not all 'hard croc cafe' t-shirts you know
... ja!" One of our favourite 'family' members was Mary. A tiny swiss girl who had only learnt english upon arriving in australia. She had a heart of gold, a passion for partying, an amazing capacity for beer drinking, and the funniest stories enhanced ...
Hunting Crocodiles
Gud Die Mates, We have landed in Darwin, our first stop in Australia. When we got on our tour bus, we experienced our first look at this giant. It is much more civilized that what we were used to in Asia, but not nearly as interesting and ...
More photos
Hey guys, Just to let you know Caz has uploaded her photos now which can be found on the link below. www.travelpod.com/ members/caz_sykes love ya Gem ...
Tastes of the world
John and I have been checking out Darwin over the last few days and we really like it. Its easy to get around and has a really multicultural aspect. Yesterday we checked out the city and a few of the sites (parliament house, the mall, the ...
A racy little number
... quite literally came to shove! The third and final day was even more spectacular and V8 fans from all over Australia had decended on Darwin`s Hidden Valley to see who would win the 6th Round of the 14 Round championship. The atmosphere was electric ...
Unsolved mysteries
... - a Dutch Delight". It's on that beach and at the adjacent weekly evening market that I spent my last evening in Darwin and in Australia with Keith and Tris, a Scottish/Swedish couple I befriended on my arrival here- what could be more fitting? Both of ...
Indonesian Onboard Show
It was 11:15 p.m., but worth it--as we began to watch the onboard crew's Indonesian Show, complete with dancers, vocalists and ...
Just Smile: Asia In Reflection
... in Bangkok or Saigon. I've seen the end product many times. But now that I'm in the west again, as wonderful as country Australia is, no one smiles at each other. Leaving us all floating by in self conscious bubbles. I've tried smiling at people. The ...
Po cyklonie Tracy Darwin nie jest juz takie samo..
... samochod. Zbrodnia wydawalo by sie banalna, ale wstrzasnela lokalna spolecznoscia. Pare uciekinierow zlapano w Queensland I odstawiono do Darwin. Zapadnia w dalszym ciagu istnieje, samej szubienicy jako takiej juz nie ma. Prawdopodobnie mial na to wplyw ...
Flying to Darwin.
We boarded a plane for the 4 hour flight to Darwin from Brisbane. We could fly from Brisbane to New Zealand faster than we could fly to Darwin in the Northern Territory! On arrival it was so good to see Karl Powell again, the same bus driver we had on ...
Diabelskie osmiorniczki i inne przysmaki
... ktorych bylam po tym co jadlam. Do dzis pamietam jak smakowal czerwony barszczyk w skansenie w Nowym Saczu 10 lat temu. Australia otworzyla moje kubki smakowe na kuchnie niemal calego swiata! Moja ulubiona jest kuchnia tajska po prostu ta kombinacja ...